CM holds meeting with mining workers

Sankhali: Stating that the Supreme Court is going to hold an important hearing on mining issue on February 10, the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant told the mining workers to have patience for few days in getting their issues resolved.

Sawant was addressing the workers during a meeting with
them at Secretariat on Friday which was also attended by Speaker Rajesh
Patnekar and Mayem MLA Pravin Zantye.

The workers had requested the Speaker and Mayem MLA
Zantye for a meeting with Chief Minister so that they could put forth their
grievances.

This meeting was planned accordingly. During the meeting,
the Chief Minister told the workers to have patience for few more days in order
to get their grievances resolved. He told that important hearing on mining will
be held on February 10 in the Supreme
Court and based on this, the government is likely to take the future decision.

He added that in case there is a delay in restarting
mining, there is other option of forming mining corporation, the process for
which has been kept ready by the government.

Regarding payment of full salary, he said he will be
holding talks with company management
over the issue. Meanwhile, workers association president Nilesh Karbotkar
informed that they have decided to withdraw temporarily their agitation, which
they had planned from Monday, due to the word from the Chief Minister.

“We are hopeful of some solution as assured by the Chief
Minister and we have decided to be patient for few days,” Karbotkar
added.